Baudrillard's book "Simulacra and Simulation" is so closely associated with (some cast members were asked to read the book, which Morpheus, the rebel leader, also quotes).Ģ007 article from Inside Higher Ed (emphasis mine):Ī segment on National Public Radio included a short clip from soundtrack in which Lawrence Fishburn’s character Morpheus intones the Baudrillard catchphrase, “Welcome to the desert of the real.” The cover of Simulacra and Simulation - in some ways his quintessential theoretical text, first published in a complete English translation by the University of Michigan in 1994 - is shown in the first film. Many sources claim that it was required reading on-set In the distance, we see the ruins of a future city protruding from the wasteland like the blackened ribs of a long-dead corpse. As in Baudrillard's vision, your whole life has been spent inside the map, not the territory. Morpheus: You have been living inside a dreamworld, Neo.
He changes the channel and we see a very different city as we enter the television. It exists now only as part of a neural-interactive simulation that we call the Matrix. The world as it was at the end of the Twentieth Century.
The book has been hollowed out and inside are several computer disks.Īnother version of the scene quoted above: On the floor near his bed is a book Baudrillard's Simulacra and Simulations. The earth, scorched and split like burnt flesh, spreads out beneath us as we ENTER the television.Īnd from the 1998 shooting script (PDF link) we have two shout-outs: The sky is an endless sea of black and green bile. Morhpeus: You have been living inside Baulliaurd's vision, inside the map, not the territory.
We GLIDE AT the television as he changes the channel. This Chicago exists only as part of a neural-interactive simulation that we call the Matrix. Chicago as it was at the end of the twentieth century.
#The matrix series movie
I can't speak to Ghost in the Shell, but it's extremely likely that The Matrix, at least, was influenced by "Simulacra and Simulation" the film is very closely associated with that book:Ī copy of the book makes a brief appearance in the first movie in the series, as the hollowed-out container where Neo keeps his hacked programs:Ī 1996 draft of the script explicitly calls out Baudrillard moments before quoting from his book:
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